awaken
verb (used with or without object)
to awake; waken.
awakener
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a word derived from
awaken.
Example Sentences
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It showed that there was a great amount of intelligence lying dormant in the populace, which only needed the coming of the awakener to be aroused to permanent activity.
From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell
Because of the very fact that it lives and that it contains a soul, it is the great awakener, the incomparable evoker.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
If only his age and its royal awakener had understood each other better!
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
This first awakener of Roman literary effort was born at the time of Pyrrhus and died before the battle of Zama.
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
The awakener is science—empirical science turning its brave eyes upon man, its maker, to reveal the origin and destroy the excessive pretensions of his thoughts.
From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Max Eastman
